The first phase of the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) has been completed, receiving the submissions of more than 15 firm candidates, delivered to 8 mentors available. The Wikimedia Foundation is funding 4 full-time internship positions between January and March 2013. There is a possibility to obtain more, depending on external sponsors of the program. The selected candidates will be announced on December 11. The OPW is organized by the GNOME Foundation and 11 FLOSS projects are taking part.

Five MediaWiki candidates have been selected for the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) and they will be announced today. They will work on different projects as full time interns under the supervision of MediaWiki mentors between January and March 2013. We got 10 submissions from about 25 people interested. The OPW is organized by the GNOME Foundation and 11 FLOSS projects are taking part. The rather open and participatory selection process we have defined for OPW will be used as basis for future mentoring programs.

We announced the 6 interns selected for the Outreach Program for Women. 4 of them are funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and 2 by Google through an agreement with the GNOME Foundation, organizers of the program. Our payment to the GNOME Foundation has been approved and will be transferred in few days. Some casual planning discussions have started already.

Six MediaWiki candidates have been announced for the Outreach Program for Women (OPW). 4 of them are funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and 2 by Google through an agreement with the GNOME Foundation, organizers of the program. They will work as full-time interns under the supervision of MediaWiki mentors between January and March 2013. We got 10 submissions from about 25 people interested. The rather open and participatory selection process we have defined for OPW will be used as a basis for future mentoring programs. We've also started matchmaking for the LevelUp mentorships for the coming quarter.

The Outreach Program for Women is more than half-way. Our six participants are fairly on track; read February reports from Valerie, Mariya, Priyanka and Sucheta. Teresa is working on unit tests for the Git repository extension and is looking at a request to use this extension to help to maintain CentralNotice-related content. Isarra completed her work on Flow/User tests and now is working with the Editor Engagement team on improvements to the Watchlist design.

Google published the timeline for the Summer of Code 2013 and we have confirmed our intention to apply as organization. Without big announcements and more than a month before any deadline, we have already 15 students, 5 mentors and 2 org admins potentially interested.

Making Possible projects the reference list of big tasks to potential contributors. Featured project ideas must go through a reality check considering project feasibility for newcomers, availability of mentors and community/maintainers buy-in, which we check through related feature requests filed in Bugzilla.

We received got the 21 requested Google Summer of Code 2013 slots and we are going through the candidate approval process. We are also going through the approval process for the Outreach Program for Women. More details on May 27, as soon as the public announcements of both programs are made.

We selected 20 Google Summer of Code and 2 Outreach Program for
Women projects that will be mentored by a total of 32 volunteers. This represents more than double the amount of projects we had last year. We received 69 applications from 60 students for Google Summer of Code 2013, from which 9 were also applying to OPW, and 4 OPW-only individual applications. Google allocated the 21 slots we requested, but we decided to give one back in order to keep a standard on project feasibility.

The 20 Google Summer of Code and the 1 Outreach Program for Women interns have completed the bonding period (with 3 exceptions, 2 of them justified) and they are now working on their projects. One OPW accepted candidate declined her participation due to a job offer. Monthly status updates are available for these projects:

We also met with SocialCoding4Good, who are relaunching their activities, and we refreshed the Wikimedia page. We expect this to become a regular channel for new technical contributors working in corporations with social/training programs.

Quim Gil organized meetings with each GSoC / OPW team, one by one. Most projects were already at full speed and for them the meeting was primarily social / nice to have. A few really benefited from going through a checklist to highlight early problems easy to solve now. Only one meeting was held back: Bayesian Spam Filter Extension. The student is progressing but we are missing the primary mentor.

Quim Gil organized meetings with each Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women team, one by one. Most projects were already at full speed, and for them, the meeting was primarily social and nice to have. A few really benefited from going through a checklist to highlight early problems easy to solve now. All GSoC and OPW projects, 21 in total, are now on track.

Wikimedia's first participation in the Google Code-In program required a lot of dedication from the ECT members, and about a dozen of mentors and other contributors helping creating and reviewing tasks. Students completed about 200 tasks. The GCI inertia and the lessons learned will help us organize a better gateway for new contributors, which was a main reason for us to join this program. We also believe that the experience acquired will help us make future editions as successful with less work.

We joined Facebook Open Academy almost at the last minute thanks to a reminder from developer Tyler Romeo. Six projects were accepted, which will be developed by teams of university students during the first half of 2014:

Wikimedia's first participation in the Google Code-In program ended up with great success: 273 tasks completed by 46 students with the help of about 30 mentors. Theo Patt and Mateusz Maćkowski were selected winners for Wikimedia, and we sent a special mention to Mayank Madan.

Facebook Open Academy's warm-up period saw a slow progress in the beginning of the projects. At the end it seemed that everybody was waiting for the official start at the kick-off in Facebook headquarters on February 7−9.

Getting Facebook Open Academy projects up to speed is becoming even more complex than expected, but we are getting there slowly. All students and mentors met at the kick-off hackathon at Facebook headquarters on February 7−9 (see Marc-André Pelletier's report).

Sixteen Google Summer of Code students and seven FOSS Outreach Program for Women interns will be busy in the next months working on Wikimedia projects. We got 23 participants in total, two more than a year ago, even if our quality criteria have been more strict this time.

All Google Summer of Code and FOSS Outreach Program for Women were evaluated by their mentors as PASSED, although many were still waiting for completion, code reviews and merges. We hosted a wrap-up IRC meeting with the participation of all teams except one. We are still waiting for some final reports from the interns. In the meantime, you can check their weekly reports:

Christy Okpo's project "Improving the Wikimedia Performance Portal" had a delayed start due to a last minute problem finding a mentor available. She finally started working in a metrics project for Parsoid (weekly reports).

Wikimedia's participation in Google Code-in 2014 during December evolved as planned, with the participation of several students and mentors.

Wikimedia took part in Google Code-in 2014, a contest for 13-17 year old pre-university students. In those seven weeks, 48 students successfully completed 226 Wikimedia tasks, supported by 30 mentors from the community.